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r T BnLTuff JAN. 19, 1907.] INNSBRUCK. MIDLCAL JOURNAL 13 INNSBRUCK. open spaces are numerous, the area covered by it is quite out of proportion to that of towns with an equivaleat OW late years the Northern Tyrol has begun to attract population elsewhere.. It has a well-arranged modern winter visitors bent purely on holiday and winter sports, drainage system, and is supplied by water from thje for it affords a large choice of places, within easy reach of mountains. one another, at which skating, sledging, toboganning, and The fact that it is the seat of a university, of a medical ski-running can all be parsued under exceptionally school, and of an army corps, and has a theatre and favourable circumstances. numerous schools, and is a not unimportant capital, may, Northern Tyrol, however, has attractions of a much when taken in conjunction with its elevation and climate, more serious character than those of a convenient winter offer special inducetnents to certain classes. The majority playground; but to these neither the inhabitants nor the of winter resorts elsewhere have nothing to offer to a world at large seem to have awakened until recently. person who lacks either sufficient energy or sufficient This is somewhat curious, because the merits of Northern strength to spend his whole time skating, tobogganing, or Tyrol, and especially of Innsbruck, were strongly ski-running. -emphasized some twelve years ago by Professor Jaccoud. At Innsbruck there is the fullest opportunity for all of Writing in March, 1894, in the La Semaine Mdicale, he these, but in addition there are the intellectual occupa- reviewed minutely the various factors which go to make tions of a large town, with the facilities for study of up a desirable residence for persons predisposed to languages, music, and other matters. There are also tubercle, and discussed the extent to.which they existed many walks available in the well-kept paths along the at various places-Davos, St. Moritz, Samaden, Arosa, Caux, mountain sides; for the mountains on each side of the -Glion, and others-and finally plumped for Innsbruck, valley, though not very close, are readily, accessible as combining the greatest number of essentials. Physio- by tramways to their base. The Brenner Pass puts graphically, meteorologically, and otherwise, the circum- it into easy communication with a number of places com- stances of the place seemed to him so exceedingly parable with the better known health resorts of Switzerland. favourable to the preventive treatment of phthisis that GOSSENSASS, a station on the southern side of the Brenner he expresses surprise that it had not long before become Pass, lies at an elevation of close on 4,000 feet, and-makes noted in this a strong point connexion. of its winter The place of ........... .season; as a which he .... ... winter resi- specially ap- ; ; .... ... 5 d e ~n c e of proves, Inns- purely alpine bruck, lies at type it could the head of an ,v-77 not be bet- 'elevated valley tered. The running east -and west, and whole village devotes itself varying be- _ K|3_.1t to the enter- tween two and i _ N |itilp % tainment of its four miles in visitors, and width. It is l there is closed in on _! ample the north occupatio'n by D;M> 0 both for the the Bavarian .Y. ~~strong and the Alps, which, weak. It' is just where happily situ- Innsbruck lies ated for cx- -at their foot, ~~ ~~I ' ~p editio'ns, Trise very 5 i !which are un- abruptly to a dertaken by height of some 3 -. ||..thelazy or .6,000 ft. The infirm in western bar- rier is formed Ii .. bysledges,._ .thel.activeand. ,by the Swiss on elt at the rodeln, Alps, whiclh The Main Stree Innsbruck. a species of are penetrated by the railway which crosses the Arlberg toboggan on which the Tyrolese have performed their Pass; to the east the valley after six or seven miles is winter journeys from time immae-norial. Other places -shut in by the Jenbach and Sellenthal Mountains, while which have a winter season and, though further off, to the south lie the endless mountains which divide can easily be reached from Innsbruck, are ST. ANTON, Austria from Italy, and through which creeps the ancient on the Arlberg line, at an elevation of some 4,300 feet. high road from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, It is famous for its ski-running slopes, but as a ,the Brenner, now traversed by a railway. stopping place should be commended to the active Innsbruck, therefore, lies in a mountain cup, but a cup rather than to the infirm; KITZBUHEL also is easily so large and broad that there is no sense of being shut in. reached on the Gisella line. Here again the climate is {.ts height above the sea level is some 1,800 ft., an eleva- alpine, though the elevation is not great-2,000 feet. tion sufficient to reduce the barometric pressure very Somewhat less accessible are ST. VALENTINE, ST. ULRICH, -considerably without bringing about such a degree of and CORTINA; the former is nearly 5,000 feet above sea Tarefaction in the air as can be harmful to any one. The level, and the latter two lie amongst the Dolomite climate throughout the winter is dry and cold, the mean mountains at an elevati-on of over 4,000 feet. They are in December being - 2.40 C., in January 3.9 C., in reached by short sledge journeys from the stations which February - 0.20 C., and in March + 3.30 C. These are serve them, and in point of still, cold, climate, and facilities ,the averages of fifteen years. During the same period the for sport are excellent. average number of cloudy days from October to March has Though the Tyrol in winter is empty as compared with 'been four to six a month. The air is always exhilarating Switzerland, access to it is quite as easy as to the Engadine, -and usually very still. In spite, therefore, of the fact that and life there on the whole is decidedly less expensive. ,the elevation of the place is comparatively slight, the Jaccoud considers that Innsbruok is beneficial for patients meteorologic conditions are those of a high alpine resort, suffering from anaemia or neurasthenia, and of late years a the actinic rays of the sun having full play and there good deal has been done locally in the way of the ,being little subjective recognition of the fact that it is graduated-exercise treatment of heart disease, a number cold, whatever the thermometer may register. of walks near the town having been selected and The town lies between two small rivers, and with its graded for this purpose. It would be an ideal place in 'three suburbs has a population of between forty and fifty which to complete the education of a delicate boy or -thousand persons. As most of its streets are wide, and girl..

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